US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on April 15 for "Medical device and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,486, issued on April 15, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical device and control method" was invented by Danilo Legaspi (Hachioji, Japan), Tsuyoshi Hayashida (Hachioji, Japan), Satoshi Honda (Hachioji, Japan) and Norihiko Hareyama (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes: an end effector configured to apply treatment energy for treating a living tissue according to supplied power; a drive source configured to supply the power to the end effector; and a processor configured to classify, in a first time period after a supply of the power to the end effector is started, the living tissue into any o...